Re: [Patch03/05]- Containers: Initialization and Configfs interface

From: Valdis . Kletnieks
Date: Tue Sep 19 2006 - 11:38:32 EST


On Thu, 14 Sep 2006 18:41:26 PDT, Rohit Seth said:

> --- linux-2.6.18-rc6-mm2.org/kernel/container_configfs.c 1969-12-31 16:00:00.000000000 -0800
> +++ linux-2.6.18-rc6-mm2.ctn/kernel/container_configfs.c 2006-09-14 16:18:45.000000000 -0700

> +static ssize_t simple_containerfs_attr_show(struct config_item *item,
> + struct configfs_attribute *attr,
> + char *page)
...
> + switch (ctfs_attr->idx) {
> + case CONFIGFS_CTN_ATTR_ID:
> + tmp = sc->ctn.id;
> + break;
...
> + return sprintf(page, "%ld\n", tmp);

What use is this value, given that we already have containers/user_friendly_name
to use in the filesystem namespace? Or is this a mostly-debugging thing?

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